Dr. T.R. (Tjalling) Valdés Olmos PhD
- Spuistraat 134
- Kamernummer: 7.16
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Postbus 1642
1000 BP Amsterdam
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Research Profile
I am a lecturer in the department of Literary & Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, where I currently teach courses in critical and cultural theory, decolonial studies, and gender & sexuality studies.
I obtained my PhD - a study where, through the work of Sylvia Wynter, Raymond Williams, and Laurent Berlant, I investigate genres of spatialization and their affective and political function in popular cultural imaginations of non-urbanized North American geographies – at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) as part of the ERC-funded project ‘Imagining the Rural in a Globalizing World’. I work across transnational and interdisciplinary fields of decolonial and queer studies, and my research interests are mainly concerned with the relations between epistemology, affect, ambivalence, and politics as well as the comparative cultural analysis of settler colonialism, cultural geography, sexuality, race, genre, rural studies, and pop culture.
You can find my writing in PhiloSOPHIA, Collateral Journal for Cross-Cultural Close Reading, Junctions, Armada: Tijdschrift voor Wereldliteratuur, and my latest writing "Ambivalence and Resistance in Contemporary Imaginations of US Capitalist Hinterlands" (Open Access) appears in the edited volume Planetary Hinterlands: Extraction, Abandonment, and Care (Palgrave 2023). Currently I am co-editing a forthcoming volume with Esther Peeren on cultural imaginations of the rural (Brill), and am working on a monograph (based on my dissertation) titled Genres of Rurality: Unsettling Affect in Popular Imaginations of the Globalized US Rural. I am also an active member of the Terra Critica: Interdisciplinary Network for Critical Humanities, where you can find some short writings and reflections. -
Teaching
2023-2024
- Twentieth-Century Theory and Its Afterlives (BA Literary & Cultural Analysis)
- Thesis Workshop Literary and Cultural Analysis (BA)
- Art, Science and Technology (BA Literary & Cultural Analysis)
- Thesis Supervision (rMA Cultural Analysis; MA Comparative Cultural Analysis; BA Literary & Cultural Analysis)
2022-2023
- Concepts for Reading Contemporary Culture (BA Literary & Cultural Analysis)
- Thesis Supervision (BA Literary & Cultural Analysis)
2021-2022
- Thesis Supervision (BA Literary & Cultural Analysis)
2020-2021
- Sex/Race/Trans: Human Life-Forms (MA Comparative Cultural Analysis)
- Thesis Supervision (BA Literary & Cultural Analysis)
2019-2020
- Sex/Race/Trans: Human Life-Forms (MA Comparative Cultural Analysis)
- Thesis Supervision (BA Literary & Cultural Analysis)
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Publicaties
2024
- Valdés Olmos, T. (2024). Ambivalence and Resistance in Contemporary Imaginations of US Capitalist Hinterlands. In P. Gupta, S. Nuttall, H. Stuit, & E. Peeren (Eds.), Planetary Hinterlands: Extraction, Abandonment and Care (pp. 163-177). (Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture, and Society). Palgrave Macmillan. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24243-4_10
2022
2020
Bosma, A., & Valdés Olmos, T. (2020). The Coloniality of Benevolence. Collateral , 23, Article a. http://www.collateral-journal.com/index.php?cluster=23 [details]
2019
- Valdés Olmos, T. (2019). The ‘Who’ of the Longue Durée – or – Critique as Coalitional. In Position Papers 2019: Core Group Meeting July 2019 Terra Critica. http://terracritica.net/wp-content/uploads/pospaper_Valdes-Olmos_London2019.pdf [details]
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Nevenwerkzaamheden
Geen nevenwerkzaamheden
Peeren, E., Bosma, A., Stuit, H. H., & Valdés Olmos, T. R. (2022). Inleiding: Het platteland - De idylle voorbij? . Armada, 21(75), 4-5.